Over the last three decades, more than $7 billion worth of surplus military equipment has found its way into the hands of law enforcement agencies across our country -- including here in the Mid-South.
The Clerk’s Office for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and the Tennessee Department of Health are warning of a scam where scammers are making spoof calls, appearing to be from their offices.
Attorney Carlos Moore says the family of a murder victim is hoping a judge denies a motion for a psychiatric examination for former Oxford police office Matthew Kinne who is charged with killing 32 year old Dominique Clayton.
A Bartlett man has been indicted in the killing of one man and the attempted killing of seven others in a pair of car-to-car shootings earlier this year in Raleigh, according to Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.
A Cordova mom’s world shattered Tuesday when she said her 11-year-old son told her a day care worker at The Gentlemen and Ladies Learning Academy had been abusing him.
Hundreds of Memphis Police Department employees were disciplined last year, including 133 police officers who were suspended, according to a report by an internal watchdog that investigates allegations of police misconduct.
Now six months after the pandemic started, law enforcement officials and public safety officials in Shelby County are getting a better idea of how it affected crime trends.
A 29-year-old man has been indicted in the shooting deaths of two men and the wounding of another following a dice game this summer in Binghampton, according to Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.
Tuesday afternoon, Terrance Sanders was arrested as a murder suspect in a homicide investigation by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Team.
Memphis police are revealing much more about that attempted carjacking including releasing the name of the 16-year-old who died in the shooting. Leslie Ballin, Attorney for that 72-year-old doctor, told WMC Action News 5 it was self-defense.
A woman has been indicted in the death of her boyfriend last year, who was taken to a hospital with injuries compatible with being run over by a vehicle, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced Tuesday.
A Memphis teen has been indicted in the deadly shootings of two Miss. men at a South Memphis gas station last year, according to Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich.
A shooting in the middle of the day just before two in the afternoon at a Kroger fuel center at Poplar and Kirby left shoppers in shock. Police say what appears to be an attempted carjacking ended with one suspect dead and another injured.
Chayne Cardwell worked for Performance Food Group. He was shot and killed early Monday morning during a delivery to Jack Pirtle’s Chicken on South Bellevue near McLeMore Avenue.
Shelby County Judge Paula Skahan ruled Wednesday in favor of attorneys for Pervis Payne, who filed a petition in July requesting DNA testing in the long-running case.
The suspect wanted for assaulting a woman on Spottswood Avenue last week was arrested and charged Tuesday morning. And now the two women who feared he might come after them are relieved an arrest has been made.
It’s an alarming trend here in Memphis and in other cities across the country. Police are seeing more aggravated assaults because of domestic violence.
Today attorneys for Pervis Payne filed a complaint to prevent Tennessee from carrying out Payne’s execution on Dec. 3 until the state creates a procedure to formally judge his claim that, as a person with an intellectual disability, his execution would be unconstitutional.
Jason Autry was serving an 8-year sentence on a federal drug charge when he was arrested in the murder of the 20-year-old former west Tennessee nursing student.
People living around the University of Memphis woke up to a rude surprise Thursday morning. Thieves broke into multiple cars overnight, leaving piles of shattered glass in the parking lot.
